Kate Beckinsale has been
a fixture on Hollywood’s A-list for years. In celebration of the release of her
latest film, “The Widow,” on March 1, 2019, Wonderwall.com has
uncovered 15 juicy things about British beauty that you might not know (but
should!). Keep reading to learn some fun facts about Kate…
Kate Beckinsale and her
ex-partner, Michael Sheen, couldn’t be closer. The pair, who dated from 1995 to
2003, are good friends and amicably co-parented their daughter, Lily, who’s now
in college. “He’s really dear, close family. He’s somebody I’ve known
since I was 21 years old. I really love him a lot,” Kate said on “Popcorn
With Peter Travers” in 2016.
Kate Beckinsale won the
WH Smith Young Writers Award not once but twice. She won her first (as a teen)
for fictional short stories and her second for a series of poems she penned,
according to BBC News.
Kate Beckinsale and Pete
Davidson started getting hot and heavy in early 2019. The “Saturday Night
Live” comedian reportedly “only has eyes” for Kate, who’s 20
years his junior, and she’s said to be equally smitten. The pair were
photographed holding hands in February 2019 after one of Pete’s
stand-up shows following a flirting session at a 2019 Golden
Globes afterparty.
A few weeks later, Kate shot back at haters who criticized
her budding relationship. After someone wrote “disappointed in your dating
choices” in her Instagram comments, Kate replied, “Fairly let down by
your wonky beard but thought rude to say.” She’s been linked to other much
younger comedians too, including fellow Brit Jack Whitehall (who’s 15
years her junior) in 2018 and Matt Rife (who’s 22 years her junior)
in 2017.
Kate Beckinsale went
through a very traumatic event when she was only 5 years old. Her father, actor
Richard Beckinsale, died unexpectedly from a heart attack in 1979. The shocking
experience deeply affected Kate, who “started expecting bad things to
happen,” according to an interview with The Independent.
That’s right, Kate
Beckinsale has been in the biz for more than four decades! The actress,
who was born in 1973, landed her first televised role on the BBC’s “This
is Your Life” when she was only 4. The episode was dedicated to her late
father.
